St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-31

field again with money and score OF
papers to sound his praises. He can be
beaten if his opponent receives the
same equipment. Mr.. Lind will shrink
to the proportions of mole-hill the first
time a weIl-organized fight is made
against him.
As to the Governorship,
well, defined opposition to w. r. Mer-
riam's candidacy may be found here as
well as in other parts of the state.
The disposition to renOminate McGlll is
gaining strength. No better analysis
of the situation is to be found than in
the interview with radical Republican
given herewith:
Il maintain that the rule in society
viii, h holds that there are many dis
agreeable things which you are bound
to take down, and to do so with smll-
ing face, applies to politics as well. A
case in point is the denomination next
year of Gov. McGill. We don't like to
do it, but recedent demands that he be
made no exception to the rule. Party
expediency insists that. unless he with
draw from the race of his own accord,
no more schisms be created by the de-
feat of his aspirations.
Merriam and His Friends
(many of them deserters from McGilD
do not recognize the situation. Cher
iShing for more than year past the be-
lief that the times and necessities of the
state demand him for governor, MIR.
Merriam has been zealOusly preparing
himself for the elevation. Some un-
known Cassius has been filling the ears
of this banker-Brutus with deceitful
tales of the hungry cry OF the people for
his candidacy. Mr.. Merriam believes
Just as confidently as he dld when he
ran for mayor of st. Paul, that the
office, backed by public opinion, is seek
ing him. He never was more mistaken
in his life, and defeat Ger ainly awaits
him in the convention unleSS-unleSs,
say-his money proves all-powerful. IL
/ mistake not the
Sentiment Among Republicans
of the country mot the city is against
the selection Tor governor of any man OF
Mr.. Merriam's political stamp. He Will
not recognize this until he has fallen
''sick of self-love and tastes with a dis
tempered appetite" He has made very
careful plans for his canvass. L know
that wherever there is a country news
paper that has needed help, Mr.. Mer-
riam has kindly assisted it. In this way
he secures the certainty of advertise
ment and press backing. He gave the
Farmers alliance, last winter, check
for $500 and that has been heralded
abroad. He banqueted the grangers of
the house at his own home, let them
dance iigs on his parlOr and drink liquor
from his sidebOard. He gave them to
understand that he paid out of his own
pocket the salaries of number of extra
Clerks and Messengers
for the service of the house. "Who so
firm that cannot be Seduced?" The
country members of the legislature fell
into the trap that he had set for them.
They bit at his golden bait, and ad-
iourned to sound his praises. He Sc
cured by the money he scattered around
them at least seventy-fiye campaigners
out of the legislature. He captured the
anti-monopolistic DOnnelly without
sweating a hair, and the profound
author of atlantis arose and pro-
nounced him scholar? During the
summer Mr.. Merriam took charge of
the state fair. 1t is said as well, in more
than one section of the state, that w.
w. Platt's resignation of the state fair
presidency was forced by DOnnelly and
Mr.. Merriam to give the latter the OPP
portunity to still further allure the
rural vote. 1t is the farmer whom Mr..
Merriam is after. lie recognizes that it
was
The Granger
who nearly defeated McGill last year.
and he is counting that tickle individual
with shrewd business sagacity. There
have been many great men that have
fattered the people, who ne'er loved
them1 The quotation applies aptIy to
MI Merriam. He is mOneyed aristo-
crat. By birth, training and education
he has no more sympathy with the farm
ers than he would have with street
gamin. The county Republicans feel
that his nomination would mean the
certain defeat of the party. His system
of politics is measured, like his busi-
ness. by dollars. He understands the
value of fiattery, of policy and money.
But on the public questions of the day
he is at sea. ] have known him since
he was a boy and I'll take my oath that
| Mr.. Merriam doesn't know the differ
| ence between free trade and bean soup.
| We can trust McCill for second nOmi-
nation. His worst fault has been the
selection of bad advisors. His friends
(O have hurt him and the party more
than he has himself, Still, Mr.. McGill
would not by running again create the
Dissension Within the Party
that Merriam would, if nominated.
Here in the Second district we look on
Merriam as we did at Gilman-a close
and personal friend of the railroads.
His sympathies are with the railroads,
his personal friends own them, his
money is in their stocks and their money
in his bank. He is man who goes in
for the dollars and cents and nothing
| else. Would he give up any interest he
had in the railroads for hundred thou
| sand farmers? What kind of railroad
commission would he choose One
| favorable TO the immense wealth he has
invested. or one in sympathy with the
farmers? | feel, and SO do hundreds of
other Republicans in the state, that we
cannot afford to risk 4 campaign with
Mr.. Merriam. The party has got to
begin peace-making. and to avoid per-
sonal campaigns.
BY Re-Xominating McGill
We will tide over an ugly crisis until
1870. We may add prohibition TO the
| platform and mavbe not. That remains